Building quite the case for selection with his VFL performances.
He’ll get a look at some point in the season. Hopefully before our season completely falls off the cliff.
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Hopefully gets a debut before gets injured.
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When your backline is stacked with the likes of Shiel, McGrath and Prior it’s just hard to see where he fits in
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Truth dart to the heart.
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Caddy thinks he’s great. He has leadership experience.
I think the sooner we put the 3 team mates together in Caddy, Kako and Johnson, the better. There’s an energy there that’s infectious.
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I don’t really know anything much about this guy, but it seems like he has the skillset for a HBF. And that’s a position we really need to address; is he being developed for that role?
Also, is he quick?
We will debut him as the sub then play him at half forward, he’ll get the ball 4 times and look out of his depth and never play for us again
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Being played as the 7th defender in that ‘quarterback’ style role in the VFL and assume he would have done the same today. Not overly quick but his skills and poise in traffic are a clear highlight of his game.
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Embrace the rebuild and play the kid.
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It’s not a rebuild.
It’s a refresh with 31 year olds playing new positions.
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Reminds me a lot of Zak butters with ball in hand, maybe it’s the shoulder tape but he looks to have the pace and class…
Hopefully can develop defensive side this year and some crazy reckless attack on the footy
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I got the impression that he may have spent substantial time on the bench each quarter, may not yet have the fitness base to run full games.
Has anyone every seen Johnson and Roberts in the same place before?
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Looking forward to this lad getting a go
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surely cant be worse than jones right?
He needs to put a bit more meat on the bones and get involved with play further up the ground. Took a lot of kick ins yesterday and I’d rather have him kicking to our players from a wing. Hope he keeps building his tank and gets a go there. Could be an absolute steal.
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Agree that his fitness is not quite there. Saying that he missed the whole pre-season and even the months leading up to draft. So he is playing serious catch up on his fitness and body strength(which he couldn’t work on due to shoulder recovery)… why it’s pretty exciting he is playing at a decent level despite all that
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It’s great to see an Essendon recruit that is a beautiful kick, it’s been a rare thing for us.
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